Sounds good, I love the Monster Hunter games and Spec Ops is something I'm looking to rent over the summer on the recommendation of my brother.

As far as your backlog goes: I really dug the hell out of both XCOM and Dishonored. Still need to get around to starting through Mass Effect 3, though.

Well, actually, I still need to get through all 3 Mass Effect games, really. I wanted to wait until the first game was finally made available for the PS3 before bothering with 2 and 3 (which were already on the system and even in my possession), so I ultimately just ended up getting the entire trilogy compilation as soon as it became available. It spent a couple of months wading in my sea-like backlog before I finally managed to unwrap it, and even then it somehow got lost back in my shuffle after only a few hours of the first title. But the whole shebang is definitely on my TO DO list.

I've started playing Team Fortress 2 again, I got myself Poker Night at the Inventory and Poker Night 2 to grab the unlockable TF2 items in them, I started playing Mega Man X5 a day or two ago for some reason and will probably follow it up with X6, and I'm maybe half way through disc 2 of Final Fantasy 8. Short, occasional bursts of Phase Shift/Guitar Hero too.

Went to a locally owned game shop in town that sells older games (the reason I go there, with my addiction to 8 and 16 bit titles) and found a game for the 360 called Port Royale 3: Pirates and Merchants.

This game is fucking intense in thought. Deepest pirate-related game I have seen in a long time. Worth a look for fans of the old old strategy games that involved 7-8 hours of empire building before you even engaged in direct conflict.

What I am saying here, is that it is a beast of a game, and has me hooked, though I am bad at it, or it is difficult. (not sure which)

Also Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning? Fucking Badass. The story is as deep as you would expect from R.A. Salvatore, the art design is fucking gorgeous and the game is just fun to play. Awesome example of doing a sandbox rpg right.

This has been Asher's quick reviews of games that have been out for a while now.

Say my name and his in the same breath, I dare you to say they taste they same.

Xbox Live Arcade games coming out of my arse. My console is busted at the moment. Damn disc drive not picking up games, it's out of warranty and I can't afford to get a new one just yet so i'm catching up on some XBLA games.

Terraria - Really fun simple looking sidescroller but a deceptively deep game. Like a 2D minecraft, but it's really more than that. Me and and my hombre VHX are making this game our bitch, except hard mode because hard mode is not only a clever name

Joy Ride Turbo - Xbox avatar karting, XBLA's answer to Mario Kart. It's never going to be Mario Kart but it's still a fun little game

Worms Revolution - I'm sure everyone here has played some incarnation of this franchise before? This new one introduces psychics items and different worm classes to shake up the formula a bit, but it's essentially the same game it always has been

Motocross Madness - The classic PC game given the xbox avatar treatment. Fun game, and i've nearly beat it, but need to wait until they sort the unobtainable achievements out until I pick it up again

I also pick up Marvel Vs Capcom origins too, which has the original MvC and Marvel Super Heroes bundled together. I'm yet to have a good go at this though

Went to a locally owned game shop in town that sells older games (the reason I go there, with my addiction to 8 and 16 bit titles) and found a game for the 360 called Port Royale 3: Pirates and Merchants.

This game is fucking intense in thought. Deepest pirate-related game I have seen in a long time. Worth a look for fans of the old old strategy games that involved 7-8 hours of empire building before you even engaged in direct conflict.

What I am saying here, is that it is a beast of a game, and has me hooked, though I am bad at it, or it is difficult. (not sure which)

Also Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning? Fucking Badass. The story is as deep as you would expect from R.A. Salvatore, the art design is fucking gorgeous and the game is just fun to play. Awesome example of doing a sandbox rpg right.

This has been Asher's quick reviews of games that have been out for a while now.

There are probably all kinds of nits that one could pick in regards to this game, but there's simply no denying the strength of its action-RPG-combat system. I mean, it's not quite as sound as Dragon's Dogma, but it's still pretty damn solid.

There are probably all kinds of nits that one could pick in regards to this game, but there's simply no denying the strength of its action-RPG-combat system. I mean, it's not quite as sound as Dragon's Dogma, but it's still pretty damn solid.

There are much worse ways to spend 20-30 bucks. Also, I kinda squee with delight whenever I pull off a stealth kill.

Say my name and his in the same breath, I dare you to say they taste they same.